Don’t fret with Mother Nature, we have the green folks and scientists to advise us

By JOHN PERRY

Published 3:43 am, Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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For several years now, this old world has been experiencing some rather drastic and unusual weather events. Our own area has been experiencing a rather severe and long term drought. Due to this, we have cities that are having to encourage residents to conserve water usage. Many of these areas before the drought once had what was believed to be unlimited water available, and experts supported this theory.

Now all of a sudden we learn we are getting in some pretty precarious situations with our water supplies. Also, due to these long term drought conditions, we have been experiencing some of the worst years on record of land and forest fires, many of these forest fires have destroyed flora and fauna that will take many years, if ever, to replace.

We have some green advocates who claim we are having global warming situations in many places on our planet. Our ice caps were said to be only half as large as they normally are, and getting smaller every year. Now all of a sudden we have scientists making studies of this situation, and low and behold they claim the ice caps are twice the size as they were two years ago and still growing. The ice is thicker in some places than it has been since such studies have been done.

There is one other problem we all seem to agree on. The entire planet is beginning to have pollution problems, and as our world population increases, the more pollution. Some of this stuff we dump takes many years to dissolve, and some of it never. There are some studies being done, I understand, to start dumping this stuff in outer space, and maybe even on other planets. I haven’t heard what the green folks think of this idea, or even what our scientists think, but I really believe all this was created for a purpose, and I doubt it was for us to destroy like we are doing to our own planet.

I heard just this week that China is planning to establish a colony on Mars in the near future, as our own planet population will not be able to support itself in the distant future.

Well, a few years ago I would not have believed stuff like this could ever happen, and that beautiful galaxy and Milky Way will be turned into a waste depot. Mother Nature is likely crying her eyes out with what is happening to her Earth.

Longtime Plainviewan John Perry is a freelance writer living in Amarillo.